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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Like the debates about gun control, "guns don't kill people, people kill people", there are strongly held views about how to stop or at least control spyware and spam. The very mechanisms that are supposed to protect endusers are being used to create and deliver spyware.

This article by Ben Edelman makes the point that those charged with running the Internet are not doing enough to protect us, and are in fact allowing the problem to get worse.